BLACKSBURG, Va. (Feb. 25, 2006) - The ETSU women's tennis team fell to Virginia Tech, 5-2 at the Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center on Saturday. The Lady Bucs fall to 6-2 on the season while the Hokies improve to 5-2 on the year.

Virginia Tech started the day by winning all three doubles matches. Freshman Vita Moskaliova (Minsk, Belarus) and senior Sylwia Ziolkowska (Warsaw, Poland) fell at the No. 1 position to Anat Elazari and J.J. Larson, 8-2. The doubles point was then clinched when sophomore Olya Batsula (Minsk, Belarus) and freshman Tara Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.) were defeated by Inga Beermann and Abbey Walker, 8-4. Junior Masha Ilina (Kyiv, Ukraine) and senior Sandie Knight (Adamstown, Australia) were also defeated in a close match, 8-7 with a tie-breaker.

"We can't take anything away from Virginia Tech, they played very good today, we just weren't on our strongest, just before the match we had a doctor look at Elena (Volobueva) and she has the flu, it's kind of tough when you lose your No. 1 player in singles and in doubles. We still had a chance, but everybody tried to step up a little bit more and we just overplayed" said Brooks.

The Buccaneers next match is scheduled for Friday, March 3 against conference opponent Campbell in Johnson City, Tenn. at 1 p.m.